“You are beautiful. It pains me to know you feel like this.” She talked for a while, and I listened closely to every word. But, it was when she said nine specific words to me that I realized I had been looking at my situation the wrong way for so long. In those ten seconds, I cried, and shook, because I knew that the relationship/friendship I had with God was the most important, and I had been neglecting it. It shouldn’t matter what others think of me. The only thing that should matter is who I am to God, and what my relationship with him looks like. I didn’t know this for so long, and I wish I did. Because those 20 minutes with my best friend, alone in the howling wind and chilly air, were my favorite 20 minutes of the whole summer. “Your identity is in Christ, not in this world,” she told me. I smiled, cried, understood, and
“You are beautiful. It pains me to know you feel like this.” She talked for a while, and I listened closely to every word. But, it was when she said nine specific words to me that I realized I had been looking at my situation the wrong way for so long. In those ten seconds, I cried, and shook, because I knew that the relationship/friendship I had with God was the most important, and I had been neglecting it. It shouldn’t matter what others think of me. The only thing that should matter is who I am to God, and what my relationship with him looks like. I didn’t know this for so long, and I wish I did. Because those 20 minutes with my best friend, alone in the howling wind and chilly air, were my favorite 20 minutes of the whole summer. “Your identity is in Christ, not in this world,” she told me. I smiled, cried, understood, and